Who’s afraid of Red, Green and Blue
by LAb[au] (BE)

The project takes as starting point Brussels’ 145 m high Dexia Tower, from which 4200 windows can be individually color-enlightened by RGB-led bars. For the next two months a new project within the series ‘Who’s Afraid of Red, Green and Blue’, will forecast tomorrow’s weather for Brussels, in collaboration with the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium .

The project displays tomorrow’s temperature, cloudiness, precipitations, and wind, by using colors and geometrical patterns to visualize these data.

A color-code corresponds to tomorrow’s temperature compared to the monthly average, linked to a scale of color-temperatures ranging from violet ( -6° or colder ), blue ( -4° ), cyan ( -2° ), green ( monthly average ), yellow ( +2° ), orange ( +4° ) to red ( +6° or warmer ).

For example: When tomorrow’s temperature is two degrees higher than the monthly average, the tower colors ‘yellow’. Furthermore, the level (dark / light) of this color corresponds to the light-condition of the sky of the upcoming day.

Geometrical patterns are created with a vector-field, constituted of small lines which constantly re-orient, causing patterns, letters and numbers to appear. These patterns are visualizing tomorrow’s cloudiness, showers (rain, snow, ice …) and wind.

• – Who’s afraid of Red, Green and Blue website